Plant Life of Western Australia
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1990. More
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1990. More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 2011 (facsimile edition)/ 1933 to 1953. This collection of eighteen 'Selected Western Australian papers' by Davidson published in various scholarly journals between 1933 and 1953 is the second volume of Davidson's works produced by Hesperian. The five-page 'appreciation' of Daniel Sutherland Davidson (1900-1952) is by Kim Akerman..... More
Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1882, and London, L. Reeve & Co., 1879. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas, from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting..... More
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997. The 'initiative of six senior Ngarti and Kukatja women who are living at Yaka Yaka and Balgo communities on the edge of the great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. The women want to share their life stories with a wider Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal audience by..... More
Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2006. The 'Bradshaw' rock art of the Kimberley. More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1934 (second edition)/ 1933. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1976. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara [sic] of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara [sic] of the Musgrave Ranges, on the borders of South, Central and Western Australia (Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40). The following caveat is printed on the verso of..... More
Perth, Fred Wm. Simpson, Government Printer [for] Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, 1910. Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Bulletin Number 32. More
London, Humphrey Milford [at the] Oxford University Press, 1926. More
Ann Arbor, International Monographs in Prehistory, 1993. International Monographs in Prehistory Archaeological Series 3. More
Perth, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1943 (revised edition)/ [1930]. James Robert Beattie Love (1889-1947), clergyman and missionary, was Superintendent of the Presbyterian mission at Kunmunya, north of Derby, from 1927 to 1940. More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1985. 'Over 400 Western Australian gold-bearing localities are described with 104 detailed location maps. [This book] is a major contribution to prospecting in WA.' This would account for its perennial desirability; as for its rarity, that's another story altogether. More
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1998 [first thus]/ 1961. Number 234 of only 400 numbered copies; first published from the original manuscript in 1961 by the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, SA. From the 2-page introduction by Richard Barnes (unique to this edition); Tietkens 'was invited by a wealthy Scot, Louis Leisler..... More
Perth, Western Australian Newspapers Ltd., 1937. Provenance: Dr Ian Keith McGill, Western Australian academic and antiquarian bookseller, with his bookplate mounted on the verso of the front wrapper. More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1979. In the Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series. Another copy we have handled was one of only 300 copies; the half-title of this copy neither has the printed limitation details nor the number-stamp. More
[Perth], The Western Australian Herbarium, 1987. 'Illustrations and cover paintings by Margaret Menadue'. [2 items]. More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1998. Signed by the illustrator Katrina Syme (and dated 4 March 1998). More
Toowong, Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications, in association with The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 2000. The title page is signed and dated (December 2000) by the author. An unparalleled 'visual record of ancient Kimberley rock art, dealing specifically with periods predating the Ice Age', and a work of lasting significance..... More
Crawley, University of Western Australia Press, 2008. 'Information on each species, including who named them and where they were first collected, habitat, distribution, flowering period, size and distinguishing features ... species placed in taxonomic groupings making it easier to differentiate between those that are closely related ... illustrations of the..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Peter Egerton Warburton (1813-1889) left Alice Springs for Western Australia in April 1873 with six men and seventeen camels. The party 'endured long periods of extreme heat with little water, and survived only by killing the camels for meat. They reached the..... More
Como, Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Conservation and Land Management, 1992. More
[Perth, Western Australian Department of Lands & Surveys], 1955. The author was the leader of the North Kimberley Survey and Mapping Expedition, 1954; his report has some interesting Indigenous Australian content. Not in McLaren; not in Greenway. More
Perth, Imperial Printing Company, 1933. The author wrote from personal experience dating back to the 1860s. Provenance: 'Mrs W.A. Norman | Mitcham' is written in ink on the first (blank) page; the Normans had a lengthy connection with Mitcham, and William Ashley Norman compiled the history of the suburb, published..... More
Victoria Park, Hesperian Press, 1985 [facsimile]/ 1915. More
[Gooseberry Hill], Noel Hoffman, 2011 (third edition)/ 1998 (revised second edition with supplement)/ 1984. This third edition contains over 50 pages more than the revised second edition (as described by Trove). More